Ryszard Nakonieczny in the series Housing Estate, what next?

Housing estates represent specific areas of cities requiring conceptual and thoughtful decision-making by public administration. Their spatial structure carries complications in both economic and social sustainability. Until now, we as a society have dealt almost exclusively with buildings and their construction technology standards, and we have not paid much attention to finding a long-term strategy for the development of these locations. The search for answers to the questions of future development of these specific areas thus represents one of the most important topics in spatial planning and urban management.

We would like to invite you to the third lecture in the series Housing estates, what next?, which will take place on Thursday, April 24 at 7:45 PM. The guest will be Ryszard Nakonieczny, who will present his experiences with the management and regeneration of housing estates in Poland. The lecture will be held in the auditorium 107 of the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Dejvice and will be conducted in English.

Architect Ryszard Nakonieczny lectures at the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Katowice in the Department of the History of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Heritage Protection. Ryszard Nakonieczny is also a member of the international commission DoCoMoMo, which is dedicated to the documentation and care of modern movement heritage in architecture.

The lecture is part of an extensive research project "Housing estates, what next?", organized by the Faculty of Architecture of CTU in cooperation with the Center for Quality of Housing, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Prague Foundation, and the National Network of Healthy Cities. The project is supported by the Visegrad Fund.

The project “Housing estates, what next?” examines the possibilities of transforming existing housing estate units into functioning and attractive parts of urban structure. The project includes a studio assignment in the Kohout-Tichý studio, a student workshop, and a series of six thematic lectures. In the first part of the lecture series, experts from Visegrad countries will present the issues of housing estates in the Central European context, and will then be supplemented by Czech experts from among architects, urban planners, and theorists who deal with housing estate themes in their work. An international conference is planned for this autumn, which will not only present the results of case studies and analyses developed in the studio, but will also feature guests from Germany, France, and the Netherlands, who will present completed or ongoing regenerations of housing estates, both in terms of substance (principles) and process (roles of public administration). The project will conclude with a traveling exhibition, which will begin at the Faculty of Architecture of CTU and will subsequently be presented in cities and city districts that participated in the project. The theoretical knowledge gained during the individual phases of the project "Housing estates, what next?" will also be summarized in a publication that will indicate basic recommendations for the transformation of Czech housing estates.

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